The small team behind PoodleVPN

PoodleVPN is built by a small, disciplined group of security engineers and privacy activists. No investors. No marketing departments. No analytics. No identity collection. Privacy engineered — not sold.

Who we are

A boutique VPN built intentionally small for maximum privacy.

A small team by choice — not limitation

PoodleVPN is intentionally operated by a tight, focused group of privacy activists and infrastructure engineers who reject the modern surveillance internet.

Large VPN companies can’t protect privacy because they are optimized for growth, marketing, and analytics — not security.

Why small is safer

Small is harder to corrupt: No venture capital, no corporate board, no pressure to collect data.

Small is more secure: Every server is manually built, hardened, and audited internally — no outsourcing.

Small is more predictable: A tiny trusted team means fewer attack vectors and no hidden processes.

Logs cannot exist because the system rejects them

Manual WireGuard keys, zero accounts, zero analytics, zero metadata storage — the architecture makes logging impossible without redesigning the entire system.

What we believe

The philosophy guiding how PoodleVPN is built.

Privacy is autonomy

Freedom requires control over what you reveal. Surveillance removes that choice.

Security requires discipline

We harden OS, routing, DNS, firewalls, and keys manually. No shortcuts.

Minimalism beats complexity

Fewer services, fewer dependencies, fewer people = fewer risks.

Transparency over marketing

No hype. No exaggeration. Only real technical explanation.

The PoodleVPN team

MrPoodles
Founder / Infrastructure

Designs and maintains all backend infrastructure — Swiss bare-metal servers, Iceland DNS, routing policy, and hardened WireGuard deployments.

Erastus
Security Engineering

Responsible for Linux hardening, kernel security, cryptographic policies, firewall segmentation, and OPSEC hardening.

Brightforge
Network Engineering

Implements multi-hop routing, proxy chains, WireGuard key systems, and designs zero-linkability topology.

Arctide
Support / Ops

Handles support privately — no CRM, no ticketing logs, no transcripts, no analytics.